How to Write an Oakland Trend Piece (Community Voices)

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or worse—working in a Manhattan-based newsroom—you’ve just found out that Oakland is now Brooklyn. No, this isn’t a figurative expression. Oakland has literally turned into Brooklyn overnight, like how Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself magically transformed into a giant vermin. (We figured you Brooklynites would get the Kafka reference).

So now that this metamorphosis has happened, how does one go about writing an Oakland/Brooklyn trend piece? Well, we here at Oakland Unseen have developed a handy guide to save out-of-town journalists the trip to Oakland (because we hear it can still be dangerous), and to crank out their trend piece by following the tips below: